Two Singapore students win international award for founding and running NGOs

Recent Yale-NUS graduate Nur Hazeem Abdul Nasser, 23, and National Public School International student Aanya Rao, 16, received the award at a virtual ceremony on July 1.

Mr Hazeem began The Signpost Project in 2019, which uses social media campaigns to fight social stigma faced by elderly tissue paper sellers. It also organised an awareness campaign on organ donation with the National University Centre for Organ Transplantation, with an art competition themed around organ donation.Other than raising awareness, The Signpost Project connects elderly tissue sellers and cardboard peddlers to the relevant social service agencies, including the Ministry of Social and Family Development.

Mr Hazeem recently graduated from Yale-NUS College with a degree in politics, philosophy and economics.Mr Hazeem will then serve a bond with the public service, as he had received a scholarship from the Public Service Commission for his undergraduate degree.She said:"I hope to pursue a career in the field of biomedical science and entrepreneurship.

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